Voice recordings from domestic violence alerting app exposed on the internet

One the face of it, it sounded like a good idea. A smartphone app, disguised as a regular app delivering the top world, sports, and entertainment news, containing a secret feature that allows victims of domestic abuse to send a covert distress call for… Continue reading Voice recordings from domestic violence alerting app exposed on the internet

Man sentenced, two others charged, in connection with Satori IoT botnet

22-year old man from Vancouver, Washington, has been sentenced to a US federal prison for his role in the development of the Satori botnet, which launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from hijacked IoT devices. The Satori botnet, based … Continue reading Man sentenced, two others charged, in connection with Satori IoT botnet

Find a Playstation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Do you think you have found a vulnerability in the Sony PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation Network?
You could be heading towards a sizeable sum of money, after Sony announced details of its new bug bounty program. Just be sure to play by the rules…… Continue reading Find a Playstation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Find a PlayStation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Do you think you have found a vulnerability in the Sony PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation Network? If so, you could be heading towards a sizeable sum of money. That’s because Sony announced details of a new bug bounty program that it is running in… Continue reading Find a PlayStation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Smashing Security podcast #184: Vanity Bitcoin wallets, BlueLeaks, and a Coronavirus app conspiracy

A conspiracy spreads on social media about Coronavirus tracing apps, US police find decades’ worth of sensitive data leaked online, and is there a Bitcoin bonanza to be had from watching Elon Musk YouTube videos?
All this and much more is discuss… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #184: Vanity Bitcoin wallets, BlueLeaks, and a Coronavirus app conspiracy

DDoSecrets thrown off Twitter after distributing 269GB BlueLeaks data dump

The activist group Distributed Denial of Secrets, perhaps better known by their shorter but clumsy moniker DDoSecrets, has been permanently banned from Twitter. The self-declared “transparency collective”, which published leaked and hacked … Continue reading DDoSecrets thrown off Twitter after distributing 269GB BlueLeaks data dump